Learn about this topic in these articles:

discussed in biography

A polemical feminist, Jelinek often wrote about gender oppression and female sexuality. In the satiric
Die Liebhaberinnen (1975;
Women as Lovers, 1994), she described the entrapment and victimization of women within a dehumanizing and patriarchal society. Her semiautobiographical novel
Die Klavierspielerin (1983; ...